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Design More Steel Connections Faster, Easier, & More Accurately

Descon is built by and for structural engineers, so you know it has exactly what you need.

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Powerful Advanced Features

Accurate Calculations & Analysis

Accurate Calculations & Analysis

  • Toggle between AISC 13th, 14th, or 15th editions, ASD (Allowable Stress Design) or LRFD (Load Resistance Factored Design), and Imperial or Metric
  • Quickly view limit states with ratio gauges
  • Easily access calculations by clicking on individual gauges
  • See overall connection capacity at a glance
  • Automatically create optimized designs
  • Drawings and reports update instantly with input changes
Realtime Edits to Renderings

Realtime Edits to Renderings

  • See your connection design change in any combination of 5 separate interactive 2D and 3D drawings views as you edit the inputs in real time.
  • Dynamically drag and stretch callouts and dimensions
  • Easily zoom, pan, and rotate drawings
  • Customize material types and thicknesses on the fly
  • Click connection elements in graphical screen to directly access inputs and forms
Simple & Complex Connection Types

Simple & Complex Connection Types

  • Quickly design simple connection types like moment, shear, bracing, and truss connections including beam-to-beam, beam-to-column, or brace end.
  • Easily create complex connections such as Wide Flange (WF) Beam to HSS Column using an End Plate, Double Channel Clip Angle brace to a WF Column Flang, and other multimember steel connections.
  • Design seismic force-resisting connections
See a full list of connection types available in Descon
Best-in-Class Calculation Reports

Best-in-Class Calculation Reports

  • Comprehensive hand-style calculations in .pdf, .rtf, or .html format
  • Easily search calculations by headings or keywords
  • Customizable report header, including adding your company logo
  • Add highlighting, comments, and bookmarks to your reports
  • Organize and separate drawings on report pages
  • Quickly cycle through no-goods (NGs) and bookmarks
  • Any changes made to 2D and 3D models are automatically updated for your next report.
  • View Sample Reports:
    Sample-Descon-Report_Moment-Configuration.pdf
    Sample-Descon-Report_Brace-Configuration.pdf
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With Descon, you’ll save time designing steel connections and provide your clients with a complete calculation report that professionally showcases your expertise.

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